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SharePoint Feature or Enhancement Requests

If you could request one feature or enhancement to SharePoint what would it be? Here are a couple examples I could think of:

Expiring Permissions – Being able to set a time limit on when the permissions will expire for a user on an item.

Bring back the “Up” button! – The “up” button was replaced with cookie trails in WSS 3.0, however, if a document library is added as a web part to a page there is absolutely no way of navigating up in a document library; you no longer have access to the document library cookie trails. (I am currently working on my own implementation of this as time permits. I’ll get it posted as soon as it is available)

Remove the “Close” web part button – Talk about a very misunderstood concept when it comes to web parts and a be cause of performance issues (Hint: use the ?contents=1 query string to quickly gain access to the list of web parts closed or open on a specific page).

Just remembered another one :).
Consistent use of the browse dialogue (findasset thingy??).
In a weblog post you have to “guest” the path to enter an image. There are many other places were it isn’t used consistently.

Windows SharePoint Services specifies limits for the number of columns of a certain type that you can create in each list or library. The following table lists the limits by column type.
Column Type Maximum Number
Single line of text AND Choice (Drop Down Menu or Radio Buttons)* 64
Multiple lines of text AND Choice (Checkboxes (allow multiple sections))* 32
Number AND Currency* 32
Lookup 16
Yes/No 16
Calculated 8
*In rows marked with an asterisk (*), the number given is the total for all columns of both of the types in the row combined. For example, you can create 16 Number and 16 Currency columns, or 30 Number columns and 2 Currency columns, but not 32 Number columns and 32 Currency columns.
Note When you create a list or library, the single line of text column Title is automatically created. You can customize this column, but not delete it.

View support in Office client save as/open dialogue.
When using 10k plus files in a doclib, views come in handy to filter.
Only when opening these files from a office client application there no support for those same views…

About

My name is Paul Liebrand and I currently reside in Southern California. I plan on writing about anything related Microsoft SharePoint.

Because of other interests I have , you may also see posts off topic here.

I also started a community wiki site that will be dedicated to Windows SharePoint Services and related technologies. I update it has frequently as I can, but I encourage others to check it out and contribute where possible. The site can be found at http://www.wsswiki.com.